Steubenville rape case can teach about sexual assault

6:50 AM,
Mar. 19, 2013

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Two Ohio high school football players were convicted Sunday of raping a 16-year-old girl in a case that had Ohioans, and the nation, asking: If it could happen in Steubenville, could it happen anywhere?

"What happened here is shocking, and it is appalling," Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said following the verdicts. "But what's even more shocking and appalling is that crimes of sexual assault are occurring every Friday night and every Saturday night in big and small communities all across this country."

Every two minutes, someone in the United States is sexually assaulted. That amounts ...